 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 360 pagine
...nights, And in the endless labour die. 4 Who travels in religious jars, (Truth mixed with error, shades with rays,) Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. 5 But grant our hero's hope, long toil And comprehensive genius crown, All sciences, all arts his spoil,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pagine
...jars, Truth mix'd with error, clouds with rays, With Whiston wanting pyx and stars, In the wide ocean sinks or strays." Cowley seems to have had, what Milton...performances by their just value, and has therefore closed his " Miscellanies" with the verses upon Crashaw, which apparently excel all that have gone... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 pagine
...Johnson, William Whiston. 1667-1752. Who travels in religious jars (Truth mix'd with error, shades with rays), Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays.—Bentley. That good, but weak man, old Mr. Whiston, whom I have seen distributing in the streets,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pagine
...the praise of Shakspeare.' Johnson " Who travels in religious jars, (Truth mixt wilh errour, shades with rays); Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide, or sinks or strays. " But grant our hero's hope, long toil And comprehensive genius crown, All sciences, all arts his spoil,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1876 - 538 pagine
...Johnson, William Whiston. 1667-1752. Who travels in religious jars (Truth mix'd with error, shades with rays), Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays.—Bentley. That good, but weak man, old Mr. Whiston, whom I have seen distributing in the streets,... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1880 - 320 pagine
...nights, And in the endless labor die. Who travels in religious jars, (Truth mixed with error, shades with rays,) Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. But grant our hero's hope, long toil And comprehensive genius crown, All sciences, all arts his spoil,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pagine
...nights, And in the endless labour die. 4 Who travels in religious jars, (Truth mixed with error, shades with rays,) Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, , In ocean wide or sinks or strays. 5 But grant our hero's hope, long toil And comprehensive genius crown, All sciences, all arts his spoil,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 658 pagine
...nights, And in the endless labour die. " Who travels in religious jars, (Truth mix'd with error, shades with rays,) Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. " But grant our hero's hope long toil And comprehensive genius crown, All sciences, all hearts his... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin Keyes - 1884 - 564 pagine
...the author of the following stanza: " Who travels in religious jars, Truth mixed with error, shades with rays, Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide, or sinks or strays." The first time I ever heard General Scott speak of religion was something more than a year after I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 628 pagine
...nights, And in the endless labour die. " Who travels in religious jars, (Truth mix'd with error, shades with rays,) Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. " But grant our hero's hope long toil And comprehensive genius crown, All sciences, all hearts his... | |
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After this says Bentley *. Who travels in religious jars, Truth mix'd with error, shade with rays, Like Whiston wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. Cowley seems to have had what Milton is believed to have wanted, the skill to rate... 
